PSC's Red Storm Wins Most Innovative Implementation

PITTSBURGH, November 5, 2004 
HPCwire, the on-line news service for high-performance computing,
announced today that PSC’s newest system, known as Red Storm,
won its 2004
Reader’s Choice Award for Most Innovative Implementation.
This Cray, Inc. system, based on the Sandia National Lab’s
“Red Storm” design (now designated XT3 by Cray), will
comprise 2,000 AMD Opteron processors, with a peak performance of
nearly 10 teraflops. An innovative and powerful feature of this
system is its internal network that allows processors to
communicate and share data more than 10 times faster than any
similar system.

HPCwire’s Reader’s Choice Awards also recognized
Red Storm in two other categories: Most Innovative HPC Technology
and Most Important Emerging Technology. We’re pleased that
HPCwire’s readers acknowledge the technology innovation of
this newest PSC system, and we look forward to making it available
as a resource for U.S. science and engineering research.

HPCwire will present the awards during the Gala Evening opening,
Monday, Nov. 8, of the 2004 Supercomputing Conference and
Exhibition in Pittsburgh’s David Lawrence Convention Center.